Power Consumption

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or consumption:

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 3:27.

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)